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In this critical history of the gendered politics of rhetoric and the rise of composition, Miriam Brody argues that nothing about words or their arrangement is innately gendered. Yet since the English Enlightenment, teachers have encouraged their students to admire and imitate manly writing, writing that is plain, forceful, cogent, and true. Similarly, students have been enjoined to avoid so-called effeminate or feminine writingwriting characterized as vague, unorganized, ornate, and deceitful.Such advice, part of what Brody terms the hidden curriculum, has served the interests of discourse communities as various as the early Enlightenment Royal Society in seventeenth-century London (by urging a clear and masculine style for the work of science) and the land-grant universities of nineteenth-century America (by claiming that the work of writing was similar to clearing the land and pushing back the frontier). Brodys discussion in fact becomes a social history of canonical rhetorical essays and important late Enlightenment, nineteenth-century, and early modern school texts. She points out that in their advice to writers even the Strunks and Whites and Peter Elbows of more recent times have extolled masculine virtues and urged control over invasive and problematic feminine qualities.Brodys book not only clarifies rhetorics inheritance and transformation of the classical ideal of manliness, it also is the first critical work to explore the ideological significance of gendered imagery and to interpret in light of this imagery rhetorical essays and hard-to-locate early composition texts against a background of previously unpublished archival materials.

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title:Manly Writing : Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition
author:Brody, Miriam.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809316919
print isbn13:9780809316915
ebook isbn13:9780585114477
language:English
subjectEnglish language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History, English language--Composition and exercises--History, English language--Rhetoric--Textbooks--History, Report writing--Study and teaching--History, Rhetoric--Moral and ethical aspects, Authorship--Se
publication date:1993
lcc:PE1404.B74 1993eb
ddc:808/.042/07
subject:English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History, English language--Composition and exercises--History, English language--Rhetoric--Textbooks--History, Report writing--Study and teaching--History, Rhetoric--Moral and ethical aspects, Authorship--Se
Manly Writing
Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition
Miriam Brody
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
Page iv
Copyright 1993 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
96 95 94 93 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brody, Miriam, 1940
Manly writing : gender, rhetoric, and the rise of composition /
Miriam Brody.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and
teachingHistory. 2. English languageComposition and exercises
TextbooksHistory. 3. English languageRhetoricStudy and
teachingHistory. 4. English languageRhetoricTextbooks
History. 5. RhetoricMoral and ethical aspects. 6. Rhetoric
Psychological aspects. 7. AuthorshipSex differences.
8. Masculinity (Psychology) 9. Men authorsPsychology. I. Title.
PE1404.B74 1993 808.04207dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 792-32129
ISBN 0-8093-1691-9Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12Picture 13Picture 14Picture 15Picture 16Picture 17CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Page v
for Anna Rabinowitz Brody
and in memory of
Louis Brody
Page vii
CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Part 1. Introduction
1
1. Writing about Writing
3
2. The Eunuch and Vicious Writing
11
Part 2. Rhetoric for Gentlemen: Advice to Writers in the Age of the Enlightenment
37
3. Plain Writing for Science: Advice in the Early Enlightenment
39
4. The Rhetorical and Gendered Politics of George Campbell
54
5. The Gendered Aesthetics of Enlightenment Rhetoric
72
Part 3. Composition Texts for Schools
93
6. "Doing" Grammar and Learning Latin
95
7. Teaching Character in the American Schooltext in the Nineteenth Century
110
8. The Modern Composition Text: Organic and Original, Armed and Loaded
160
9. Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass
188
Notes
221
Works Cited
233
Index
243

Page ix
PREFACE
Manliness is a masculine virtue with a long history and an uncertain meaning. No less a chronicler of Victorian morality than Anthony Trollope claimed manliness was an elusive ideal. Trollope's Phineas Finn came triumphantly through a trial for his life, only to succumb to an ignoble depression. Was he being, asked Trollope, perhaps unmanly? Manliness was "a composure of the eye, which has been studied, a reticence as to the little things of life, a certain slowness of speech unless the occasion call for passion, an indifference to small surroundings, thesejoined, of course with personal bravery." Yet none of these attributes taken together described all there is to manliness: "Before the man can be manly, the gifts which make him so must be there, collected by him slowly, unconsciously, as are his bones, his flesh, and his blood.... the natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so."
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